OpenAI · Sep 2025
OpenAI said SafetyKit uses its latest models to expand multimodal risk agents for fraud and prohibited-activity detection across text, images, transactions, and product listings.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
SafetyKit is a San Francisco-based YC S23 software company that builds AI agents and a network foundation model to automate trust & safety, fraud prevention, content moderation, merchant investigations, and compliance for marketplaces, payments, and fintech platforms.
Primary product
AI agents for trust & safety, fraud prevention, and policy enforcement automation
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
20-30 employees
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Trust & Safety automation / fraud and compliance AI
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
enterprise software
B2B SaaS
API platform
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
CEO / Founder
CTO / Founder
Head of GTM Strategy & Business Operations
Head of Risk and Policy
Chief of Staff to the CEO
Marketing Lead
Head of Strategic Accounts
Founders
Founder
Work & culture
High-autonomy, engineering-led, high-speed culture; small full-stack team; strong ownership over infrastructure and customer deployments; in-person San Francisco, five days a week; high trust and high expectations.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
No public salary bands were found; a 2026 GTM hiring post mentioned a $1,000 referral bonus for successful introductions.
Product & market
Differentiators
- —Network Foundation Model evaluates behavior across every user action and interaction, not just isolated events.
- —AI agents automatically investigate and escalate edge cases, reducing manual review load.
- —Models recalibrate in real time as new signals arrive.
- —Covers text, images, video, transactions, and merchant behavior in one platform.
- —Prebuilt policy and compliance workflows for trust & safety, fraud, and regulatory use cases.
- —Fast deployment and custom policy support for enterprise teams.
Technology
TypeScript
AWS Lambda
DynamoDB
S3
AWS CDK
serverless architecture
Python SDK
Kotlin SDK
Java SDK
HTTPX
webhooks
Bearer token API
npm package
Maven/Gradle
Customers
Patreon
Eventbrite
Upwork
Character.ai
Substack
Faire
beehiiv
Competitors
Hive
Sift
Stripe Radar
Trustero
Midigator
VComply
Lucy
Unit21
Sardine
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$1M estimated ARR
Estimated monthly visits
9K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
SafetyKit · Jun 2025
SafetyKit announced a $27M raise and named Ribbit, First Round Capital, Y Combinator, and several angel investors; it highlighted customers such as Patreon, Eventbrite, Upwork, and Character.ai.
SafetyKit
SafetyKit described collaborating with OpenAI, ROOST, and Discord on gpt-oss-safeguard safety models for classifying online harms.
SafetyKit
SafetyKit says Upwork sends 100% of posts for review and reports $1M+ in savings, >95% accuracy, and large reductions in manual review volume.
SafetyKit
SafetyKit says Eventbrite adopted its policy enforcement in under two weeks and used it to review events, media, and external links at scale.
Jobs and careers at SafetyKit
9 jobs at SafetyKit
Account Executive
On-site
GTM
San Francisco
7mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Business Development Representative (BDR)
On-site
GTM
San Francisco
8mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Marketing Generalist
On-site
Other
San Francisco
11mo ago
On-site
Full-time
GTM Generalist
On-site
Other
San Francisco
12mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Founding Designer
On-site
Product
San Francisco
1y ago
On-site
Full-time
Backend Engineer (Product, Infra)
On-site
Engineering
San Francisco
1y ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Backend Engineer (Staff)
On-site
Engineering
San Francisco
1y ago
On-site
Full-time
Applied AI Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Francisco
1y ago
On-site
Full-time
Frontend Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Francisco
1y ago
On-site
Full-time